Bridging peripheral nerve defects with a tissue engineered nerve graft composed of an in vitro cultured nerve equivalent and a silk fibroin-based scaffold

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3860-3867

  Tang, Xin ^a   Xue, Chengbin ^a   Wang, Yaxian ^a   Ding, Fei ^a   Yang, Yumin ^a   Gu, Xiaosong ^a  

^a NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; In vitro cultured nerve equivalent; Peripheral nerve regeneration; Schwann cells; Tissue engineered nerve grafts

Indexed keywords

AXONAL GROWTH; CO-CULTURE SYSTEM; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; GROWTH FACTOR; IN VITRO CULTURED NERVE EQUIVALENT; IN-VITRO; MICROENVIRONMENTS; NERVE GRAFTS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE REPAIR; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVES; WESTERN-BLOT ANALYSIS;

CELL CULTURE; DEFECTS; NEURONS; SILK; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PERIPHERAL MYELIN PROTEIN 22; SILK FIBROIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE ENGINEERED NERVE GRAFT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CADHERINS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROINS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLES; MYELIN PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

RATTUS;

EID: 84862829650     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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